A critical review of China's rapidly developing renewable energy and energy efficiency policies

Lo, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2013.09.006

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“…In recent years, a high number of environmental pollution disasters, such as air pollution, have emerged across vast parts of China [1][2][3]. Air pollution concentration in many regions of China has far exceeded the WHO's air quality guidelines [4][5][6], and twenty Chinese cities were listed among the world's thirty most polluted cities [7].…”

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Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Zhang

Dou

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Many frequent and severe air pollution incidents have emerged across the vast parts of China recently. The identification of factors and mapping social vulnerability has become extremely necessary for environmental management and sustainable development. However, studies associating social vulnerability with air pollution remain sparse. With reference to research achievements of social vulnerability, this study made a new trial regarding social vulnerability assessment to air pollution. With the projection pursuit cluster (PPC) model, the top three factors contributing to social vulnerability index (SVI) were discovered and SVI and SVI dimensions (susceptibility, exposure, and adaptability) were evaluated. Results revealed that adaptability values are higher than susceptibility and exposure values. SVI is in a poor condition as, for the whole region, most values belong to the high-medium level. High SVI values mainly appear in the northern and the southern ends of study area. SVI in Shanghai is lower than in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. On the scale of prefecture-level city, it can be found that the low-value centers of SVI always occurred in urban core areas. The spatial variation and inequality in social vulnerability provide policy-makers a scientific basis for air pollution prevention and sustainable management.

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Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Zhang

Dou

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, the deviation between the predicted value and the actual value is the smallest in these regions, where mildly underestimated areas and generally underestimated areas are concentrated. In these regions, GDP growth is the main cause of increase of energy consumption, as documented by many studies [11,28,29].…”

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“…For a long time, predicting and optimizing the scale and structure of the supply and demand of energy, promoting energy conservation and sustainable utilization, and maintaining energy security have been the focus of EDS and energy planning, which mainly concern influential factors such as population, gross domestic product (GDP), import and export amounts, urbanization, industrial structure, energy prices, registered vehicles and policies [10][11][12]. In order to achieve this, the following models have been used: linear regression, autoregressive integrated moving average, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, grey model, and long-range energy alternatives planning system [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

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The failure of China׳s Energy Development Strategy 2050 and its impact on carbon emissions

Fan

Wang

Sun

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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a b s t r a c tChina is the world's largest energy consumer and emitter of carbon. China's energy development strategy is thus of great significance to the world's energy security and global carbon reduction target. In this study, the implementation of "China's Energy Development Strategy 2050" (EDS2050), which has been in operation since 1985, is investigated. This study analyzes the causes of the failure of EDS2050 and the impacts of that failure on carbon emissions. The results show the following: (1) EDS2050 basically failed in 2010, and the strategic planning values of primary energy consumption and production were underestimated compared with the actual values by 39% and 67%, respectively. (2) Comparing the predicted values of basic parameters in EDS2050 with the actual values, in the production field, the main causes of failure were the underestimation of the economic growth rate and the proportion of non-agricultural industries, while in the living field, the main causes were the underestimation of urbanization and per capita energy consumption in rural areas.Further analyses of various provinces demonstrated that the major factors leading to EDS2050 failure include the economic growth rate, urbanization, population growth, and the growth in car ownership. (3) EDS2050 failure resulted in an increase in carbon emissions in 2010 of 583.50 Â 10 6 tc, and increases of per capita carbon emissions reached 46.49-47.04%; carbon emissions per unit of output demonstrated a reduction, which was as a result of technological progress. Improving energy efficiency, optimizing energy utilization, and promoting national energy conservation should be highly emphasized in China's future sustainable energy development strategy.

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“…These promising figures indicate China's rapid transition to a more sustainable energy system. Different from previous review articles that usually investigate Chinese renewable energy development from production and consumption scale, policy, or investment (see for instance [13,14]), we adopt a geographical perspective for China's current wave of renewable energy transitions. Bridge et al (2013) argued that "energy transition is fundamentally a geographical process that involves reconfiguring current spatial patterns of economic and social activity" (p. 331) [5].…”

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Renewable Energy Development in China: Spatial Clustering and Socio-Spatial Embeddedness

Huang

Liu

2017

Curr Sustainable Renewable Energy Rep

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Purpose of review In the past decade, China has made remarkable achievements in the development of renewable energies. This article adopts a geographical perspective for China's current wave of renewable energy transitions, by viewing the transition outcomes through the lenses of spatial clustering and socio-spatial embeddedness. Recent findings We find that many renewable energy industry clusters have emerged nationwide and different patterns are uncovered for the clustering in extant literature, either through bottom-up agglomeration around pioneering enterprises, or driven by top-down government strategy and planning. There is scant research on the reconfiguration of sociospatial arrangements, which is an important but very often neglected facet of energy transitions. We further discuss the regional disparities in China's renewable energy development, in which resource-rich regions are mainly in the north part of China, while central, eastern, and southern regions possess substantial advantages in fostering industry clusters. Summary In the end, we propose two avenues for future research: firstly, to explore why different clustering patterns emerge in a certain region but not in another, and what implications these cases of clustering can draw for other regions in China or other latecomer countries; secondly, to uncover how renewable energy application and popularization shape local socio-spatial arrangements.

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A critical review of China's rapidly developing renewable energy and energy efficiency policies

Cited by 272 publications

References 64 publications

Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

The failure of China׳s Energy Development Strategy 2050 and its impact on carbon emissions

Renewable Energy Development in China: Spatial Clustering and Socio-Spatial Embeddedness

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